Bruno Cendon

This report assesses the current situation of the Internet of Things sector in Spain and its potential impact on Industry 4.0.

It also identifies some reccomendations from this sector’ specialists to help its growth in Spain. The report aims to unify efforts to make the most from the Internet of Things technologies in Spain and to amplify its global impact in the next years.

Wrote the chapter "Interworking technologies for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and underlying market considerations"

Comprehensive discussion about the strategies for internetworking on the M2M/IoT world and how these approaches are conditioned by market considerations.

Description of the Smart Shopping deployment done in Santander

In the great majority of cities it is difficult and hardly expensive to create more parking spaces for vehicles since they have almost reached its full occupancy. Combining this problem with an inefficient use of parking spaces leads to congestions due to aggregation of parking seekers and regular drivers. Recent advances in low-cost, low-power Embedded Systems bring the opportunity to develop new applications to solve these problems. In particular, Smart Cities greatly enrich their… Show more

In the great majority of cities it is difficult and hardly expensive to create more parking spaces for vehicles since they have almost reached its full occupancy. Combining this problem with an inefficient use of parking spaces leads to congestions due to aggregation of parking seekers and regular drivers. Recent advances in low-cost, low-power Embedded Systems bring the opportunity to develop new applications to solve these problems. In particular, Smart Cities greatly enrich their sustainability by introducing new resource management applications that rely in those constrained devices a significant part of the system functionality. The proposed SmartParking solution consists mainly in the on-site deployment of an IoT solution to monitor and signalize the state of availability of each single parking space, as well as using context information generated by the city and its citizens to provide accurate responses to driver’s demands. Furthermore, this system improves the management of parking resources by public authorities, for instance handling groups of parking spaces facilitating the whole city traffic management. The integration of this deployment into an existing live test-bed implies an easy task requiring just the data collection through the available means of the parking spaces availability. At the present time there exist living test-beds which can be used to integrate these new functionalities for experimentation on IoT data level, to gain a better knowledge and understanding of the M2M world, reducing costs, resources, pollution and time. Show less

This paper is focused on demonstrating a real testbed for managing logistics systems in hospital environment exploiting the benefits of M2M and IoT paradigms. The work presents an architecture based on low-cost devices interacting with an enterprise application server placed anywhere in the Internet following the architecture proposed by ETSI for M2M systems. Combining multiple communication technologies (NFC, UMTS, 802.11, ZigBee and 802.3) and adapting their capabilities to different… Show more

This paper is focused on demonstrating a real testbed for managing logistics systems in hospital environment exploiting the benefits of M2M and IoT paradigms. The work presents an architecture based on low-cost devices interacting with an enterprise application server placed anywhere in the Internet following the architecture proposed by ETSI for M2M systems. Combining multiple communication technologies (NFC, UMTS, 802.11, ZigBee and 802.3) and adapting their capabilities to different functional requirements, we are capable of creating autonomous and self-managed systems. The deployed architecture integrates at end device level, a NFC reader for tracking the level of remaining stocks and multiple output interfaces for exchanging messages with the application server. The system copes with cost, availability, scalability and easy deployment requirements, being the functionality also adaptable to the requirements of potential customers. Show less